The CPI, Consumer Price Index, rises to 4% in the Balearic Islands in September, with food 10% more expensive than a year earlier, according to data published Friday by the National Institute of Statistics

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 4% in the Balearic Islands in September in year-on-year rate, nine tenths above the previous month, according to data published Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

Thus prices chain three months of increases in the Balearic Islands.

Food and non-alcoholic beverages rose 10.4%; followed by alcoholic beverages and tobacco, 7.9%; health, 6.6%; and restaurants and hotels, 6.3%. The prices that fell the most in year-on-year rate were those of housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, by 11.4%.

At the national level, the CPI increased by 0.2% in September compared to the previous month and raised its year-on-year rate by 0.4 percentage points to 3.5%.

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